Jun 13, 2022 _ news

Ribbon Cutting at Bon Secours Chester Emergency Center

Bon Secours has cut the ribbon on its new Emergency Center in Chester, Virginia. It is the latest facility to deploy a new system of clinical prototypes we developed in collaboration with the Bon Secours Mercy Health System (BSMH). Adaptable to site, community, staff, and patient needs, the prototypes can be configured at various scales from large, regional medical centers to community and neighborhood clinics.

The new Chester Emergency Center helps fill a critical service gap in the area. Residents in the Chester community have long experienced low ambulance reliability due to the large geographic area and the community’s lack of hospital emergency services nearby. The area’s aging population also means a greater need for emergency medical services.

Hospital-level care will be available to patients around the clock in the new 24,000 sf facility, which includes an 11-bed emergency department; CT, MRI, ultrasound and radiography imaging for both emergency department patients and outpatients; and an occupational health department to optimize better health and wellness for the area’s workforce.

While speeding the delivery of new facilities to market, the prototypes also enable BSMH to gather information on clinical practices across its system so they can optimize standards for building systems, materials, and construction. The prototype design supports a variety of material palettes to ensure each facility fits its immediate and regional surroundings while maintaining brand consistency.

“The flexibility of the material palette allowed for the incorporation of masonry into the façade complementing the local BSMH facilities,” explains Josh Duddey, part of the GBBN project team. “Chester is the smallest version of the prototype, but will have a huge impact on this community, where response times for emergency care were nearing 45 minutes or more. This new facility will give people immediate access to state-of-the-art healthcare.”

We first developed this system at Mercy Health’s Deerfield Medical Center. It has since been deployed at BSMH Simpsonville and other facilities in Virginia, South Carolina, and Ohio. Read more about the clinical prototypes here.